RSS 2.0 FeedVINTAGE GIFTS FOR THE AUDIOBOOK FANATIC IN YOUR LIFE
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
'Tis the season for gift giving, and what better way to please your favorite audiobook lover than with a vintage classic. Jean Palmer lists some of her old favorites.
Cover Story
Spanish-Language Audiobooks
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
Audiobook listeners looking for Spanish language audiobooks, especially for Holiday gift ideas, will find lots of outstanding titles here. This excellent article appeared originally in the May 2007 issue of KLIATT.
Featured Stories
Undead and Unworthy by MaryJanice Davidson
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
MaryJanice Davidson is a bestselling author who also writes a series featuring a teen were-dragon named Jennifer Scales, and novels featuring Fred the Mermaid (Sleeping with the Fishes, Swimming without a Net).
The Walk-In by Gary Berntsen and Ralph Pezzulo
Gary Bernsten served for more than two decades in the Central Intelligence Agency. He operated at the highest levels in the Middle East and Latin America and led the CIA’s major counterterrorist deployments in East Africa following the attacks on the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. In hunting down Osama Bin Laden, he also commanded the most successful CIA paramilitary team ever assembled, a tale spellbindingly told in the New York Times bestseller Jawbreaker. Berntsen is a recipient of the CIA’s distinguished Intelligence Medal and Intelligence Star. Ralph Pezzullo is a former journalist, an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and poet, and the author of At the Fall of Somoza, Plunging into Haiti, and the mystery novel Eve Missing. His novel The Resurrection of Thomas Lear was a semifinalist for the Faulkner Prize.
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
David Ebershoff is the author of two novels, Pasadena and The Danish Girl, and a short-story collection, The Rose City. His fiction has won a number of awards, including the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Lambda Literary Award, and has been translated into ten languages to critical acclaim. Ebershoff has taught creative writing at New York University and Princeton and is currently an adjunct assistant professor in the graduate writing program at Columbia University. For many years he was the publishing director of the Modern Library, and he is currently an editor-at-large for Random House. He lives in New York City.
Doors Open by Ian Rankin
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
Ian Rankin is a #1 international bestselling author. Winner of an Edgar Award and the recipient of a Gold Dagger for fiction and the Chandler-Fulbright Award, he lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and their two sons.
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
PAUL AUSTER is the bestselling author of Travels in the Scriptorium, The Brooklyn Follies, and Oracle Night. I Thought My Father Was God, the NPR National Story Project Anthology, which he edited, was also a national bestseller. His work has been translated into thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York
Buddhism for Busy People by David Michie
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
David Michie is a corporate communications consultant, published novelist, and Buddhist practitioner. He lives in Perth, Australia.
Exit Music by Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin is a #1 international bestselling author. Winner of an Edgar Award and the recipient of a Gold Dagger for fiction and the Chandler-Fulbright Award, he lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and their two sons.
The Waiter Rant by The Waiter
Steve Dublanica waited his first table at age thirty-one. In 2004 the author started his wildly popular blog, www.WaiterRant.net, winning the 2006 “Best Writing in a Weblog” Bloggie Award. He is interviewed regularly by major media as the voice for many of the two million waiters in the United States. The Waiter lives in the New York metropolitan area.
The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Maryatt
Captain Frederick Maryatt was a Victorian writer known primarily for his sea adventures, a genre in which he was a pioneer.
Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers by Leroy Aarons and Geoffrey Cowan
In 1992, LATW was awarded The Corporation for Public Broadcasting's gold and silver awards for Best Live Entertainment and Technical Achievement in Public Radio for "The Play's the Thing"
The Sky Inside by Clare Dunkle
Clare B. Dunkle is also the author of By These Ten Bones. A native of north Texas, she and her family currently live in Germany.
Already Dead & No Dominion by Charlie Huston
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
Charlie Huston is also the author of Caught Stealing and Six Bad Things.
Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
Thu, Jan 01, 2004
DAVID SHEFF's work has appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Wired, and Fortune. As a contributing editor to Playboy, he has interviewed John Lennon, the founders of Google, Gore Vidal, and others.
The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
Douglas Preston worked for the American Museum of Natural History as managing editor of Curator magazine. He's also written articles for The New Yorker, Natural History, Travel & Leisure, Reader's Digest, National Geographic, Harper's, Smithsonian, and Atlantic. Mario Spezi is an Italian journalist who has been investigating the Monster of Florence case since the first murders in 1974.
Kuperman's Fire by John J. Clayton
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
In his career as writer, critic, and teacher, JOHN J. CLAYTON has published two novels and two collections of fiction, all to critical acclaim. His stories have appeared in O.Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories, and Pushcart Prize Stories. The Man Who Could See Radiance was read at Symphony Space in New York and has been aired often on NPR as part of the Selected Shorts series. His collection Radiance, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in 1998. In recent years Commentary magazine has published many of his stories. His work has also recently appeared in Missouri Review, Agni and Virginia Quarterly Review. John J. Clayton has written a good deal about modern fiction, including Gestures of Healing, a psycho??logical study of modern British and American fiction and Saul Bellow: In Defense of Man. This is his second novel with Permanent Press; his first, The Man I never Wanted to Be, was published in 1998. John J. Clayton lives in Western Massachusetts, where he teaches literature and creative writing.
Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
Chuck Klosterman is the author Of Fargo Rock City; Sex, Drugs, And Cocoa Puffs; and Killing Yourself To Live. He is a columnist for Esquire and has written for GQ, Spin, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Believer, and ESPN.
Toad Surprise by Morris Gleitzman
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
Morris Gleitzman has been a frozen-chicken thawer, sugar-mill rolling-stock unhooker, fashion-industry trainee, department-store Santa, TV producer, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, and finally, a children's book author. He lives in Australia.
Stranger Room by Frederick Ramsay
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
Dr. Frederick Ramsay was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his doctorate from the University of Illinois—Westside Medical Campus. After a stint in the Army, he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland, School of Medicine and also served as an Associate Dean. In 1971 he was ordained an Episcopal priest. He lives in Surprise, Arizona with his wife and partner, Susan.
The Chameleon's Shadow by Minette Walters
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
Minette Walters is the author of twelve previous novels, two novellas, and a number of short stories. Her work, which has been published in more than thirty-five countries, has received several major awards, including two Gold Daggers from the Crime Writers’ Association in Great Britain and the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America. She lives in Dorset, England.
Slip of the Knife by Denise Mina
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
Denise Mina is the author of The Dead Hour, Field of Blood, Deception, and the Garnethill trilogy, the fi rst installment of which won her the John Creasey Memorial Prize for best fi rst crime novel. She lives in Glasgow, Scotland.
When Will There Be Good News by Kate Atkinson
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
Kate Atkinson lives in Edinburgh. Her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, was named Whitbread Book of the Year in the U.K. in 1995, and was followed by Human Croquet, Emotionally Weird, Not the End of the World, Case Histories and One Good Turn.
The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
Mon, Nov 03, 2008
Michael Connelly, a #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and a former journalist, has won numerous crime fiction prizes. He lives in Florida.
Now and Forever by Ray Bradbury
Sun, Nov 02, 2008
The author of more than thirty books, Ray Bradbury is one of the most celebrated fiction writers of our time. Among his best-known works are Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He has written for the theater and the cinema, including the screenplay for John Huston's classic film adaptation of Moby Dick, and was nominated for an Academy Award. He adapted sixty-five of his stories for television's The Ray Bradbury Theater, and won an Emmy for his teleplay of The Halloween Tree. In 2000, Mr. Bradbury was honored by the National Book Foundation with a medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
Lead Stories
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE MONTH: Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
Tobias Wolff is the author of seven previous books and the editor of The Vintage Book of American Short Stories. Among his honors are the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award, both for excellence in the short story, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He lives in Northern California and teaches at Stanford University.